“A WALK TO REMEMBER” Summary Fifty-seven-year-old Landon Carter narrates the novel‚ reflecting on events from 40 years in the past. The novel opens with a Prologue‚ in which the older Landon‚ living in the same North Carolina town as he did at the age of 17‚ stands near the Baptist church that figures prominently in the novel and gets himself in the mindset of his 17-year-old self. The story begins in 1958 and is‚ Landon tells us‚ both joyful and sad. Seventeen-year-old Landon is a senior at
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Jazmine De Jesus English 102 04/08/2010 Essay #1 In the film “A Walk To Remember‚” Landon Carter ( sh )‚ one of the troubled popular students in high school‚ gets caught after he and his friends put a students life in danger. As a punishment‚ he has to participate in helping out in after school community service activities‚ including the high school play. While completing his punishment‚ he begins to develop feelings for Jamie Sullivan (Mandy Moore)‚ the reverends daughter. Landon starts trying
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A Walk to Remember The movie‚ A Walk to Remember‚ is an excellent example of the development of an interpersonal relationship. Jamie (played by Mandy Moore) is quiet and religious. Landon (played by Shane West) is outgoing and free-spirited. They moved in different social circles. Though they knew of each other through school‚ they really didn’t know each other until they both were in the same school play. Landon did not want to reveal his feelings for Jamie to his circle of friends for
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minister of the church‚ tells the story of a man who is so grief-stricken over the death of his wife (while giving birth to their only child) that he is not much of a father to his child. An angel appears to the man‚ and she admonishes him to be a better father; she also performs a small miracle for the family on Christmas morning. The popular play‚ performed in the local playhouse‚ features seniors from the high school. Landon’s father is a congressman who spends most of his life in Washington‚ D.C.
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Sniffer is a short film about a man‚ who lives in a world where humans wear metal boots to weigh them down because they don’t react to gravity. The protagonist lives a monotonous life‚ arising from his sleep every morning to commute to work in a overcrowded bus‚ where his job entails testing deodorants by sniffing the armpits of various individuals‚ which is shown to be overweight. However‚ the ending of the film exhibit him realizing how dreary his life is‚ which triggered him unfastening his
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INDONESIAN BASIC EDUCATION CURRICULUM CURRENT CONTENT AND REFORM* Agus Dharma‚ PhD Board Member from Indonesia Background 1. The vision of Indonesian education is the realization of educational system as a solid and authoritative social institution to empower Indonesian citizen to become intelligent persons that are able and proactive to stand facing the ever changing challenges of the era. They are bright (spiritually‚ emotionally‚ socially‚ intellectually‚ and kinesthetically) and
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The book‚ Glass‚ by Ellen Hopkins‚ is a very interesting read for any reader who loves drama! The protagonist in Glass is a character named Kristina‚ and Kristina has some problems in her life. Between money problems‚ her new baby‚ Hunter‚ her parents’ divorce problems‚ and her weird and crazy alter ego‚ Bree‚ Kristina’s head is left spinning‚ and she’s looking for where to turn. On top of all that‚ she has decided to start again on a new drug‚ one that she’s used before‚ and the end results were
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A Comparative Study on the Book and Movie Versions of “A Walk to Remember” I. Introduction Nicholas Sparks was born on December 31‚ 1965‚ in Omaha‚ Nebraska. He grew up in Minnesota and California‚ and won an athletic scholarship to the University of Notre Dame. He started writing fiction while in college but his early attempt at a novel‚ “The Royal Murders‚” was never published. After graduating in 1988 he worked in various jobs‚ as a waiter and real-estate appraiser‚ and then he made
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a small town in England there was a man named Shakespeare‚ he wrote exquisite plays‚ including Macbeth written in 1606. Macbeth was written as a fable‚ he often wrote plays for King James I‚ the book however is portrayed as suspenseful and very solemn. The main characters would be Macbeth the protagonist and the witches as antagonist. Macbeth is portrayed as gullible because he believes everything the witches say about his destiny as king and as ambitious because he has just learned he is going
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can make you accept the things you were not used to‚ for those things can be change‚ which sometimes in life you got to make changes in order to live a better and longer healthier life‚ for change is central concept in modern life. A Walk to Remember is one of my favorite movies‚ since I was inspired by someone that I got the chance to see it and then fell in love with the movie‚ and it really had an extra-ordinary love story which this movie had big impact on me. The film is based upon a
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